Reference

Educational research databases
The Cunningham Library holds a comprehensive and up to date collection of educational research documents in Australia. It has some freely available data bases.ERIC (U.S. Department of Education) provides descriptive abstracts of over a million journal articles and ERIC documents—research reports, conference papers, curriculum guides, and other materials—that are not formally published otherwise.

Who was Maybanke Anderson?

Maybanke Anderson (1845-1927), also known as Maybanke Wolstenholme) was a feminist, teacher, historian and writer. Not only was she a central driving force behind women's suffrage in New South Wales, she campaigned tirelessly for progressive social reform through the establishment of free kindergartens, children's playgrounds, sex education and adult education.Listen to more about her in Gardens for children and workshops for classrooms: Maybanke Anderson, Norman Selfe and the New Education, an ABC Radio National program.